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[quote=ikornika][quote=Anonymous]
Cheap housing isn’t everything in life!  Jacksonville is inexpensive for a reason. There is a ton of land and people have to use their car multiple times a day.  There aren’t as many high paying job opportunities.  There are a lot of dumb people.  Many people will gladly pay a premium to live in a vibrant city around driven and smart people and not be forced to drive a car to get their fat as$ around.

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This!

We've been in Jacksonville for just over two years now, having returned to help my father rehab after quadruple bypass.

The cost of living is amazing but we were previously in South Florida and I took a $20k pay cut coming to Jacksonville. It was a lateral move for my husband. Our house was much smaller in South Florida vs Jacksonville but I preferred it to how large our house is now. (It's impossible to keep clean and we only use about half the space we have.)

I'm very much looking forward to DC for the vibrancy and access to public transportation. If I worked and stayed in the same field, a quick Indeed search indicates I'd be back at or exceeding the pay I received in South Florida, though as mentioned earlier, I'd love to leverage my skills into non-profit work.

So ... it appears after spending time on this board, my wants don't align with what's realistic but that just means that a little more research is required and a mental rearrangement of what we're willing to sacrifice/gain.

But, you don't know what you don't know. Now I know![/quote]

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